Professor Michalis Drouvelis

The Department of Economics
Professor of Behavioural Economics

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0) 121 414 6040
Fax: +44 (0) 121 414 7377
Email: m.drouvelis@bham.ac.uk

Address: The Department of Economics
JG Smith Building
University of Birmingham
B15 2TT

Michalis Drouvelis is a Professor of Behavioural Economics at the University of Birmingham, Department of Economics. He joined the Department of Economics in 2010 as a Lecturer and became a Senior Lecturer in 2012, a Reader in 2013 and a Professor in 2018. Before coming to Birmingham, he was part of the experimental centres at the University of York, EXEC (where he worked from 2008-2010) and the University of Nottingham, CeDEx (where he obtained his PhD under the supervision of Robin Cubitt and Simon Gaechter).

Michalis' research interests lie in the area of behavioural and experimental economics. Recent research has focused on social preferences, on voluntary cooperation in the presence of free rider incentives, on expression of emotions and on coordination games. His work has been published in Games & Economic Behavior, Journal of Public Economics, European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Psychology, Experimental Economics, Theory and Decision, Southern Economic Journal, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics and Economics Letters.

Michalis is also affiliated with CESifo (Munich) and serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization and Coordinating Editor for Theory and Decision.

Personal homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/michalisdrouvelis/

Qualifications

PhD in Economics, University of Nottingham, 2009
MSc in Economics, University of Nottingham, 2004
B.Sc. in Economic and Regional Development, Panteion University (Greece)

Teaching

Risk, Uncertainty and Information, (postgraduate module)

Behavioural and Experimental Economics, (third year undergraduate module)

Research

Behavioural and Experimental Economics
Psychology of Decision Making, Public Economics
Group Decision Making

Other activities

CESifo Network Research Fellow, Munich, Germany (since September 2017)
Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK (since September 2012)

Publications

Drouvelis, M., Nosenzo, D and Sefton, M. (2017). Team Incentives and Leadership, Journal of Economic Psychology, 62: 173-185.

Drouvelis, M., and Sonnemans. J. (2017). The Endowment Effect in Games, European Economic Review, 94: 240-262.

D’Adda, G., Drouvelis, M., and Nosenzo, D. (2016). Norm Elicitation in Within-Subject Designs: Testing for Order Effects, Journal of Behavioural and Experimental Economics, 62: 1-7.

Drouvelis, M., and Grosskopf, B. (2016). The Effects of Induced Emotions on Pro-Social Behaviour, Journal of Public Economics, 134: 1-8.

Di Girolamo, A. and Drouvelis, M. (2015). The role of gender composition and size of the group in a minimum effort game, Economics Letters, 137: 168-170.

Drouvelis, M., Robert Metcalfe, R. and Powdthavee, N. (2015). Can priming cooperation increase public good contributions?, Theory and Decision, 79: 479-492.

Drouvelis, M., and Powdthavee, N. (2015). Are happier people less judgmental of other people's selfish behaviors? Experimental survey evidence from trust and gift exchange games, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 58: 111-123.

Drouvelis, M., and Jamison, J. (2015). Selecting Public Good Institutions: Who Likes to Punish and Reward?, Southern Economic Journal, 82: 501-534.